Noether-Wald charges in six-dimensional Critical Gravity

Anastasiou, Giorgos; Araya, Ignacio J.; Corral, Cristobal; Olea, Rodrigo

Abstract

It has been recently shown that there is a particular combination of conformal invariants in six dimensions which accepts a generic Einstein space as a solution. The Lagrangian of this Conformal Gravity theory - originally found by Lu, Pang and Pope (LPP) - can be conveniently rewritten in terms of products and covariant derivatives of the Weyl tensor. This allows one to derive the corresponding Noether prepotential and Noether-Wald charges in a compact form. Based on this expression, we calculate the Noether-Wald charges of six-dimensional Critical Gravity at the bicritical point, which is defined by the difference of the actions for Einstein-AdS gravity and the LPP Conformal Gravity. When considering Einstein manifolds, we show the vanishing of the Noether prepotential of Critical Gravity explicitly, which implies the triviality of the Noether-Wald charges. This result shows the equivalence between Einstein-AdS gravity and Conformal Gravity within its Einstein sector not only at the level of the action but also at the level of the charges.

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Título según WOS: Noether-Wald charges in six-dimensional Critical Gravity
Título de la Revista: JOURNAL OF HIGH ENERGY PHYSICS
Número: 7
Editorial: Springer
Fecha de publicación: 2021
DOI:

10.1007/JHEP07(2021)156

Notas: ISI